Hamha here's my romantic little chappy. Now when we left off Sesshomaru, Shelby's brother attacked her and Stan, looking for the fire stone (the jewel Shelby won from the tournament), and knocked a tree down on top of them, making the little cliff thingy they were on collapse, and the fire stone rolled out of Shelby's bandanna…
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When the cliff they were on broke, it made Shelby and Stan fall down to the ground below, along with the tree. The tree smacked Shelby and Stan down into a hole. (the tree made a pretty big hole.) Which was where Shelby and Stan lay unconscious.
Sesshomaru picked up the fire stone, and studied it. "it's hard to believe this little jewel is the key to my ruling everything" he said with an evil grin on his face. "Soon the legendary sword, Tetsaiga will be in my control, thanks to this little jewel!" "My little sister just couldn't cooperate, maybe if she had just given up in the first place, she and her little boyfriend wouldn't have to have had such a terrible end…" Sesshomaru finished.
Shelby opened her eyes and looked around. Her body ached all over from the fall. She put her paw over her shoulder again to stop the bleeding. She looked over at Stan, he was still unconscious. He to had cuts all over, and his left arm was badly gashed, and bleeding heavily. She gently shook him awake, he looked up at her and said, "is this heaven?" Shelby smiled and shook her head. "we're still alive" she replied. Stan clutched his arm and sat up. "are you ok?" he asked Shelby, looking at her shoulder. "Ya, I'm fine.." she replied. Shelby couldn't keep her tears back anymore, she started to cry. "its all my fault.." she started. "its all my fault your hurt and down here with me Stan.." she finished. Stan gave her a real concerned look, "Shelby.. no its not, its not your fault at all" Shelby looked at him, still crying, "if I had just stayed home on the ranch none of this would have happened, but no I was stupid and came trying to find out clues to my past and stuff like that, and instead I find my lame evil lemonhead brother, and someone I really care about gets hurt…" Stan was stunned, did she really care about him? He knew he really cared about her, but she was the first girl to ever say they really cared about him!
"and now probably more evil dudes like Sesshomaru are going to be coming around here for me, and they could really hurt the other ham hams!" Shelby saw visions of her past, evil hams like Sesshomaru (not related to her though) had attacked her before on the ranch. She didn't want it to happen again, especially around the Ham hams. Stan took Shelby's paw and pulled her closer to him. She looked up at him, tears still in her eyes. "Its not your fault.." Stan said again. Stan looked down, but looked up again. "Shelby.., do you really care about me?" he asked. Shelby tried to smile, "of course I do." Stan felt like crying to, he hugged Shelby tightly. "Shelby.. I love you!, I've loved you ever since the first time I saw you!" Stan said. Shelby stopped crying, her eyes widened, she pulled away from Stan. "A-are you serious?" Shelby choked out, even though she knew he was. Stan nodded. Shelby's eyes filled with tears again, "Stan, I love you to!" she said, almost without thinking. They looked in eachother's eyes, they both knew they really did love each other. Stan bent down a little and gave Shelby a very, romantic kiss. Shelby felt so calm and warm as his lips touched hers, she wanted to stay like that in his arms forever. They broke apart and Stan hugged Shelby again.
Suddenly, Shelby saw another vision from her past, a flash of a handsome brown hamster, with golden eyes. She got loose of Stan's grip, and backed away again. Shelby knew love, she had experienced it before, but it never turned out well for her. She remembered her mom had said "I love you Shelby" right before she died, and her dad had said he loved her shortly before he left. And then she saw another vision of the brown hamster:her first, and Shelby had vowed last love. She had been truly in love with him, as he was with her, whenever she looked in his eyes they looked just as truthful as Stan's. In the end though, he betrayed her, and she used to always have horrifying visions from that. Shelby had tried to forget, but she couldn't, so she just never spoke of it. From then on though, Shelby never trusted love, and was in a way afraid of it, afraid of what it might do to her. "Shelby, are you all right" Stan asked worriedly. "I-I'm fine" she replied in a shaky voice. "We need to try and get out of here. We need to stop Sesshomaru and get back the fire stone." She said. Stan nodded, a little confused. They tried their best, climbing, digging, biting, etc., but they couldn't get under the tree. Shelby sat down, out of breath, and decided all she could do now was pray for a miracle.
Jaken placed the tip of his stick thing on top of the fire stone. It glowed a little but that was all. "Why isn't it working! The old man on the stick should be laughing!" he said impatiently looking over at Sesshomaru. "Maybe its broken master?" he asked Sesshomaru. "Broken my ass, open the path to Tetsaiga Jaken, or I'll have your head!" Sesshomaru threatened. "Y-yes master!" Jaken replied nervously. Then, the fire stone started to glow very brightly, and shot some rays of light down by the fallen tree. Shelby stopped praying and looked up, she sensed a great amount of energy. The rays were magically lifting the tree out of the hole, and other rays brought Shelby and Stan back up on land, facing Sesshomaru. Shelby quickly grabbed the fire stone. Sesshomaru looked at her angrily, "how on earth did you survive" "I don't know, but I'm ready to take you on again!" Shelby replied. Before she could attack, the fire stone started to glow even more than before, it surrounded Shelby and sucked her inside it! Then a barrier surrounded the fire stone, with Shelby trapped inside...
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Shelby/Stan, my favorite ham ham couple, and my 2nd favorite anime couple. Now we have more SUSPENSE!! Oh, and Shelby's ex-boyfriend's name and stuff like that won't be revealed until the sequel, so that's it for now, PLEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSEE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!